Age: 60
female
Viola Davis (/vaɪˈoʊlə/ vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Davis joined the DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). She has also starred in the crime drama Widows(2018), and historical action film The Woman King (2022). Davis and her husband are founders of the production company JuVee Productions, and she is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support for human rights and women of color. She became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me won her the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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for Helen Marshall in Control: Beyond Reality
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"Control: Beyond Reality" follows the story of Jesse Faden, a woman searching for answers about her brother's disappearance. Her search leads her to the Office of Federal Control (OFC), a government agency tasked with investigating and containing paranormal phenomena. He soon discovers that the OFC is in chaos, as a mysterious entity known as the Hiss has invaded its facilities and corrupted its employees. Jesse encounters the "Object of Power", a supernatural weapon capable of taking on the evil forces of the Hiss. By chance, she becomes the new Director of the OFC. While exploring the maze of corridors and rooms in the building known as the Oldest House, Jesse confronts enemies possessed by the Hiss and discovers that he possesses supernatural abilities of his own. As he delves deeper into the agency's secrets and into alternate dimensions, Jesse unravels the truth about the origin of the Hiss and its connection to his brother's disappearance. With the help of other OFC members such as Emily Pope and Simon Arish, Jesse challenges the corrupt forces within the agency and fights to restore control. Their goal is to free the OFC from the Hiss and unravel the mysteries hidden within the confines of the Oldest House.
